#dickinson 1x10

[uncleasad]

This was written on or about January 20.

Emily, as expected, was destroyed by the loss of Ben, and it seems like she’s been spending significant amounts of time at his grave—including on the day of Sue and Austin’s wedding. I’m not sure I completely blame her; if your BFF/love-of-your-life/sometime-lover was getting married, wouldn’t you want to be somewhere else? In comes Lavinia, finally getting Emily to return by playing the Sue card; the looks exchanged between them then…how long has the seemingly-flighty, self-absorbed sister known?

In a sort of bookend to the reconciliation talk with Sue two episodes ago, Emily had a lovely talk with Sue again. After the loss of Ben, Emily has finally realized all the grief, the weight and the darkness, that Sue had been carrying for all these years, and that understanding brings them closer again. And we finally get an accurate comprehension of Emily’s feelings for Ben when she tells Sue she loved him “almost as much as you”—although the gap between those two degrees could still be substantial, see the marvelous poem! Then Sue reveals her secret to Emily, of course the first person she’d tell (aside from Betty, who guessed it), and it feels like old times again, despite Sue’s impending nuptials.

It was lovely to see George one more time, a fitting end to his arc (especially after the disastrous appearance last episode…I suspect the Grout left him 😂). He finally sees Emily (almost) for who she is when he asks her to come to California with him, not as a prize to be won, with Edward’s permission, but as two like-minded people, as equals. But Emily will never leave Sue, and even George has recognized this (making the second seemingly-formerly-in-the-dark person to reveal that knowledge this episode) when he asks her if a sister will be enough. It will have to be…

Suddenly, though, Austin reveals his true self? Male privilege and power—and, perhaps above all, his insecurity over his relationship with Sue, his fears that Emily will steal her from him—and he wields that power and privilege to confine Emily to her room, belittle and diminish her. (And his lack of perception: what Emily wrote made Sue feel safe in pursuing this marriage, made her sure that she’d never lose Emily’s love, but Austin instead interpreted as Emily hurting Sue or trying to ruin his marriage. How will he react when he finds out about the pregnancy and its father? 😳) All this season I have admired how their sibling bond never faltered despite their competition for Sue’s affections, but now I cannot imagine them recovering. And the way he lied (and again belittled Emily) to Sue and the family to cover up what he had done—I’ll never look at him the same, for he has become a monster. (I also can’t help but see his seeing Sue in her dress, and the disaster that he unleashes, as foreshadowing of their marriage.)

The pairing of the wedding and the funeral in some senses is quaint and predictable, but I think it cannot be avoided. It was the death of the old Emily—if she did not in fact die the prior episode when she heard the fly buzz for Ben—the happy and free daughter, and the beginning of the afterlife—the new life—of Emily the Poet (and the eccentric shut-in; thanks, Austin <vomit>)

Sue, indeed, is a vision in the dress, as the last-minute arrival Edward is nearly breathless to describe. Edward has made his peace with the world, it seems; he can’t save the Union, but perhaps he can save his family, or at least his beloved daughter. Emily stood up to him, and he accepted her declarations, perhaps even with a smile, dare I hope a sense of pride? And she will stay right there, in that house, in that room—the very same room, incidentally, where the second great love of her life died—and so she will never leave him, looping back to his (still unexplained) fear from the very first episode.

The juxtaposition of the about-faces of Austin and Edward towards Emily pairs well with the juxtaposition of the wedding and the funeral; the world has turned on its axis.

There’s something powerful about Betty being the unsung heroine of the day—less the “unsung” part, perhaps—and a reminder that those without power and privilege are critical to the functioning of society. (Henry’s comment about the way white people party—with Emily wailing in her room at being excluded, Mrs Dickinson drunk and blind, and Robert Picardo getting it on with Aunt Lavinia, what a crazy party, indeed 😂)

It was good to see Lavinia moving on and casting off Joseph Lyman after his antics this season—and especially last episode. She deserves better than him, and I hope she finds it.

Finally, we had one last look at Ben, in the afterlife, in Emily’s subconscious. Both times her subconscious revealed that he is/was gay…was that an acknowledgement, or a fear, on her part? Was it platonic love, or something more? From Emily’s perspective, based on what she said to Sue, I can’t imagine it was anything but romantic, but this series has reveled in living in the grey and inscrutable.

I’m quite accustomed by this point to perceiving and following non-canon ships, and the vicissitudes thereof, so it feels weird, 5 years down the road from the original release of this season, to have heard all of the fandom abuzz with EmiSue during the run of the series, to have understood that the series was designed to center Emily’s relationship with Sue—after Sue was very literally erased from Emily’s life for all these years at the hands of Austin’s illicit lover—but yet to have seen and felt so little of it in the first ⅓ of the series. There were moments, yes, and powerful ones, but so far between and separated by other events—including Emily’s seemingly-romantic, encompassing love for Ben—but it’s been a struggle for me to feel EmiSue (Episode 2 aside). I wonder if it becomes more prominent, or more powerful, in the remaining episodes?

#musings #Dickinson #Dickinson 1x10 #Emily Dickinson #Sue Gilbert #George Gould #Austin Dickinson #Edward Dickinson #Betty #Ben Newton #Lavinia Dickinson #EmiSue

[roquesanteiro]

Dickinson, T1E10

“I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain”

#dickinson #1x10 #apple tv

[hailesteinfeld]

"You're the only one who understands." Dickinson | S01E10 | "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"

#dickinson #perioddramaedit #userstream #bbelcher #chewieblog #hailee steinfeld #hsteinfeldedit #emily dickinson #gifs #hs;tv #dickinson 1x10 #long post #dickinson s1

[ann-a-lightwood]

Dickinson- 01x10

I will never forget this line:")

#emily dickinson #d #Dickinson #feminism #patriarchy #toxic masculinity #hailee steinfeld #all men #dickinson 1x10 #wlw #Emily x sue #lesbian #poetry #female poet #period drama #queer period drama #this show potrays men as they are #i love it

[dailydickinson]

Dickinson (2019-) 1x10 - "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”

#dickinson #dickinsonedit #bbelcher #userstream #emily dickinson #season 1 #1x10 #gif #by maite

[dailyhailee]

#dickinson #dickinsonedit #hsteinfeldedit #emily dickinson #dickinson: 1x10 #*gif #*gifs #tacha's

[bluegumballghost]

Obrigada por existir cena do funeral, obrigada.

#dickinson #1x10

[cesaray]

#dickinson #1x10 #currently watching

[shewhotellsstories]

Watched the last episode of Dickinson. Austin is a total dick. I get finding some of Emily’s behaviors frustrating but the things he said to her were unnecessarily cruel. The quote, “you boy owe everything you have to a name,” immediately comes to mind when I think about him. Well a name and being born a guy in the 1800s to a well off family. 

#dickinson #emily dickinson #austin dickinson #1x10 #holy fragile masculinity

[never-stopp-growing]

"and I hate the fact that you're not doing it with me"

#Dickinson #1x10

[tymauteemarshall]

Right next door, and a whole world away.

Dickinson 1x10

[starndmoon-enthusiast]

Just realised something the lyrics of “Satisfied” from Hamilton is basically the plot of Dickinson.....

BUT THE THINGS IS THIS SONG GOES BOTH WAYS BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT THERE ARE SOME PARTS THAT ARE MORE LIKELY TO FIT EMILY’S CHARACTER MORE......so I suppose it’s a song that changes pov between Emily and Austin...

Emily/Austin - Angelica

Austin/Emily-Eliza

And of course

Sue as Hamilton...

I know there are few things that aren’t matching but still....Like wtf

“A toast to the groom!

To the groom!

To the groom!

To the groom!

To the bride!

To the bride!

To the bride!

To the bride!”

-Emilyyyyyyyyyy 🥺

“I’ll never forget the first

Time I saw your face

I have never been the same

Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame

And when you said “Hi,” I forgot my dang name

Set my heart aflame, ev’ry part aflame” - this really reminds me of Austin telling Emily why he’s in love with Sue.... / or it also sounds very much like Emily and Sue’s first meeting

“So so so—

So this is what it feels like to match wits

With someone at your level! What the hell is the catch? It’s

The feeling of freedom, of seein’ the light

It’s Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right?

The conversation lasted two minutes, maybe three minutes

Ev’rything we said in total agreement, it’s

A dream and it’s a bit of a dance

A bit of a posture, it’s a bit of a stance. He’s a

Bit of a flirt, but I’m ‘a give it a chance”-EMISUE

“He’s penniless, he’s flying by the seat of his pants”

-Sue is penniless...and that’s basically why she is marrying Austing.

“Then I turn and see my sister’s face and she is…

Helpless…”

Austin finally realising everything.../Emily letting them be happy

“I’m a girl in a world in which

My only job is to marry rich

My father has no sons so I’m the one

Who has to social climb for one

So I’m the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in

New York City is insidious”

- definition of Austin Dickinson everybody/ Definition of Emily Dickinson everybody more or less

“I know my sister like I know my own mind

You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

If I tell her that I love him she’d be silently resigned

He’d be mine

She would say, “I’m fine” ...”

- Exactly what Emily does when she realises Austin feelings are real and not just another game.

“At least my dear Eliza’s his wife;

At least I keep his eyes in my life…”

-1x10

#hamilton #musical #eliza schuyler #angelica schuyler #alexander hamilton #lin manuel miranda #emisue #emily dickinson #sue gilbert #austin dickinson #dickinson #hailee steinfeld #ella hunt #spoilers #watch #DICKINSON #on #apple +

[cybel96]

I just watched Dickinson 1x10 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"

#trakt

[dailydickinson]

#dickinson #dickinsonedit #bbelcher #userstream #perioddramaedit #emily dickinson #sue gilbert #emily x sue #season 1 #1x10 #gif #by maite

[dailyhailee]

Sue — Forevermore!

#dickinson #dickinsonedit #hsteinfeldedit #emily dickinson #dickinson: 1x10 #dickinson spoilers #tacha's

[sapphic-squid]

dickinson s3 is starting good, i’m LOVING how much screen time Betty is getting and that we’re seeing more of her personality shine through (also that moment where she saved emily from the proposal by Mr Conkey was great) the death scene in the first episode was amazing, i loved that Death came to Emily for advice and they said they inspire each other. i like how the kids are addressing some of the harm their father has done, i hope their mother relaxes a little but that’s doubtful.

All i hope for in this season is for Henry’s family to see him again and Emily and Sue to be on the same page, showing equal affection for each other, and just forgetting the world for like 3 minutes. It’s always one pining more for the other and they need some consistency.

Betty yes what a sweetheart. I’m happy for her business and what she’s working on with the memoir but also GET SOME SLEEP GIRL! I hope Henry makes it back okay I love him so much. They deserve the world. The way Betty saved Emily made me think of the scene in 1x10, she just knows all the tea.

Death my beloved. That really made this feel more like Dickinson. The carriage. The red dress. Everything just *chefs kiss*. Also the part about his job becoming boring was pretty funny.

On one hand I just want everything to be solved and for everyone to be happy but I know this tension and them (hopefully) communicating with their parents will (should) help. And who knows maybe Edward will get a visit from Death at the end. That’s where it’s hinting at, I just wonder what it’s trying to get from that. Because if it just end with everyone magically loving eachother cause he did that’s not what I want.

I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT EMILY AND SUE! One of them is always pulling away. I really hope they get on the same page for real a good amount before the end. I don’t want it to be rushed but I also don’t want them being distant until the very end like last season.

I’m hoping for the best

#dickinson #asks #anon #show discussion my beloved